Ruth Bradley felt ‘huge pressure’ playing Agatha Christie in new drama BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Ruth Bradley has said she felt “huge pressure” portraying Agatha Christie in a new period drama and it was difficult to switch off during filming. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/ruth-bradley-felt-huge-pressure-playing-agatha-christie-in-new-drama-37652627.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/article37652624.ece/a9112/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_47f62875-4976-42cd-bb0e-9b4e1f548eb9_1 Email Ruth Bradley has said she felt “huge pressure” portraying Agatha Christie in a new period drama and it was difficult to switch off during filming. Humans star Bradley plays the murder mystery novelist in Channel 5’s lavish new feature-length programme Agatha And The Truth Of Murder, a fictional interpretation of what Christie was doing during the period of time she went missing in the 1920s. The Poirot and Miss Marple writer famously left her home on December 3 1926 and was discovered 11 days later staying under an assumed name at a hotel in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, but with no recollection of how she got there. The film, shot in the style of a typical whodunnit of the era, sees Christie lure together suspects for the murder of Florence Nightingale’s god-daughter – who was found brutally killed on a train to Sussex several years earlier – as she attempts to solve the cold case. Bradley said she did not have much time to prepare for the role, and the weight of portraying one of the most beloved literary stars in history was a lot to take in. She told the Press Association: “Obviously there was huge pressure. “What helped was that there wasn’t a lot of time in preparation, obviously… [Read full story]